*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.Ĭara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands.
But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training.
Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assassinate the Führer. If you like historical fiction, especially if the story is set during WWII, you will probably like this.In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. I’m looking forward to reading more novels by Cara Black. Even if you choose to not translate them, you can still follow the story just fine. This does add to the story, however, they are not translated to English and I had to put the book down a few times to translate the words, more out of curiosity than anything (and it’s been 20 years since my one year of learning French). Cara Black uses several phrases and words in both French and German. I only have one complaint with this book and it’s a very small issue. Even though the story jumps around, it is easy to follow. The story tells three people’s involvement in this attempt to change history: Kate’s, The British Intelligence agent who recruited Kate, and Gunter who is ordered by Hitler to find who tried to kill him. I liked that in the beginning, the chapters are longer but as the story develops the chapters begin to shrink one chapter is only one page long. This novel is fast paced and very well written.
When her mission fails, she finds herself trapped in Nazi occupied Paris and begins to wonder if she has been set up.
She is then recruited by British Intelligence to kill Hitler in Paris. Kate Rees is an American sharp shooter who loses her husband and infant daughter in a tragic accident when the Luftwaffe bomb the base they are stationed at. This is a stand alone novel and not part of her series of mysteries.
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